Rosie Winterton

The Baroness Winterton of Doncaster
Official portrait, 2022
Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
In office
28 June 2017 – 30 May 2024
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
SpeakerJohn Bercow
Sir Lindsay Hoyle
First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
In office
8 January 2020 – 30 May 2024
SpeakerSir Lindsay Hoyle
Preceded byDame Eleanor Laing
Succeeded byJudith Cummins
Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
In office
28 June 2017 – 6 November 2019
SpeakerJohn Bercow
Sir Lindsay Hoyle
Preceded byNatascha Engel
Succeeded byNigel Evans
Minister of State for Local Government
Minister of State for Regional Economic Development and Coordination
In office
5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byJohn Healey
Succeeded byGrant Shapps
Minister of State for Pensions
In office
24 January 2008 – 5 June 2009
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byMike O'Brien
Succeeded byAngela Eagle
Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber
In office
24 January 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byCaroline Flint
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Minister of State for Transport
In office
28 June 2007 – 3 October 2008
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byStephen Ladyman
Succeeded byThe Lord Adonis
Minister of State for Health Services
In office
13 June 2003 – 28 June 2007
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byJacqui Smith
Succeeded byBen Bradshaw
Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department
In office
11 June 2001 – 13 June 2003
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byDavid Lock
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
13 August 2024
Life peerage
Member of Parliament
for Doncaster Central
In office
1 May 1997 – 30 May 2024
Preceded byHarold Walker
Succeeded bySally Jameson
Personal details
Born
Rosalie Winterton

(1958-08-10) 10 August 1958 (age 66)
Leicester, England
Political partyLabour
Alma materUniversity of Hull (BA)

Rosalie Winterton, Baroness Winterton of Doncaster, DBE, PC (born 10 August 1958), is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster Central from 1997 to 2024. She served as a Deputy Speaker in the House of Commons from 2017 to 2024. She became a member of the House of Lords in 2024.

Winterton served under Prime Minister Tony Blair as a minister in the Department for Health, then under Gordon Brown as Minister of State for Transport from 2007 to 2008, Minister for Work and Pensions from 2008 to 2009, and Minister for Local Government from 2009 to 2010. She later entered the Shadow Cabinet in May 2010 as the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.

In September 2010, Winterton was nominated and elected unopposed as Labour Chief Whip and served in the post until October 2016. She was elected as one of three deputy speakers of the House of Commons on 28 June 2017 and re-elected unopposed on 7 January 2020,[1][2] Winterton stood down at the 2024 general election and was elevated to the House of Lords later that year.

  1. ^ "Labour's Rosie Winterton elected as deputy Commons speaker". BBC News. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  2. ^ Sparrow, Andrew; Rawlinson, Kevin (28 June 2017). "Commons rejects Labour's amendment to Queen's speech - as it happened". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2017.